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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.
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Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
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My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing else. If people want to have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin.
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I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
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We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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God is a witness that cannot be sworn.
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We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.
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The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Birth was the death of him.
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When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.
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Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.
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